1100 Passengers Left Last Thursday For Overseas

Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1949, Page 6

1100 Passengers Left Last Thursday For Overseas

AUCKLAND, April 15. Nearly 1100 passengers travelling in. five ships and two airliners left Auck-; land for overseas on Thursday. During the afternoon and evening the water-' front milled with trafdc to the departing vessels and Blue Peter sailing flags were dotted along the port's eongested. berths. Chief interest in the shipping movements centred round the sailing on Thursday night of the Shaw Savill and Albion liner Tauraroa. About 1500 j visitors bra.ving the intermittent rain1 waited at the ship 's berth for more»than two hours to farewell the All Blacks and other passengers. The liner carried 302 travellers for England and 38 for South Afriea. The Mayor of Auckland'1 (Mr. J. A. C. Allum) and Mrs. Allum ! and the All Blacks we^e farewelled by! the deputy ehairman of the Auckland j Harbour Board, the deputy Mayor, and the ehairman of the Council of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Fifty meinbers of the New Zealand Returned Services' Association sailed by the Huddart Parker motor liner Wanganella for Sydney to take part in Anzae Day services tliroughout AustraIia. The partv, which is led by Mr. C. V. Chamberlain of Wairoa, will split into six sections in Australia and groups will go to Perth, Hobart, Aclelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Sevgnteen of the party are Second World War men. Before the Wanganella sailed with her 399 passengers for Sydney the liner Aorangi sailed for Sydney to complete her voyage from Vancouver. The Aorangi carried 300 tlirough passengers and 180 joined her here. Two smaller passenger ships sailed ou Thuriaday evening for the islands. The Matua left for Suva and other island ports with 97 passengers. They mchuled Qucen Salote of Tonga who had beeix in the Dominion on holiday for two months. Th§ Governinent motor vessel Maui Pomare left for the Cook Islands with 25 jxassengers. Bound for the Prime Miuisters ' cont'erence in London Mr. Fraser vvas oue of 24 passengers who left for Sydney on Thursday morning by the Tasman flyingboat. Tvventy-two pasesngers were carried by the Pan-American Airwavs clipper which left later in the morning for Seattle.